Fashion Week crossover warning: The shows are in Milan now,
but we have a few more things we want to share with you from London.

One of the signs of a great partnership is when one half of a duo has a lot to say about the other half. While out in East London visiting with Aries co-founder and co-designer Sofia Prantera, she brought up Fergus Purcell, her other creative half, quite often. And while she could have dropped any number of names alongside his (he worked with Marc Jacobs, Supreme and Alexander McQueen, for instance), the one we talked about was London's legendary Palace Skateboards.

Skate culture is central to the Aries story. Prantera and Purcell came of age in the time of raves and ramps, and after graduating from London's prestigious Central Saint Martins in the '90s, they worked together at Slam City Skates, the board brand that made it possible for Palace to come along later.

SPACE designer Ashley Williams also mentioned Palace Skateboards when she gave us her London List, so the Soho shop was already in my to-do notes, but when I took a recent spin through before leaving town, I looked at it all with a very Aries-centric lens.

In the simplest of terms, Prantera is the fit, construction and garment design brain of Aries, and Purcell is the graphics brain. Aries resonates and feels vital because Prantera's instinct with shape and silhouette-check out our denim cuts-is crossed over by Purcell's wonderfully weird eye for raw design.

Sofia Prantera in the studio with an Aries book full of Purcell's images

And that weird eye and raw design are central to Palace's icon status.

They're actually sort of everything about its icon status. Founder Lev Tanju started the brand in the early 2000s as a branch of his crew of friends and fellow skaters, Palace Wayward Boys Choir. At first they just made underground videos-those are still a big part of the game; check out the in-store screen in an image below-but the Purcell-designed triangle logo was integral to turning the corner and making Tanju's side project a full-fledged clothing and skate deck entity.

Streetwear, skate culture, sport uniform, grunge and '90s-era graphics and logos couldn't be any more relevant in fashion right now. You can even look at the stark graphics of Valentino's gorgeous current-season black and white dress series as an iteration. And ask yourself, Would the Fendi monster sneaker or the Dolce&Gabbana poppy and graffiti-esque series exist without the precursor of the skate logo aesthetic and the popularity of street culture?

In past press articles, Prantera has summed up her and Purcell's brand by invoking the idea of a girl in a gorgeous dress with a T-shirt on top of it. Whether that sounds just perfect or slightly unrealistic to you right now, it's a look that's only going to get more traction in the coming months. The unprecious luxe vibe is hot, and it continues to blur the lines between day and night and high and low in every sector of the industry.

I'm not really suggesting that you'll want to pair a Palace hoodie with a pair of Aries baggy denim and those Fendi sneaks for the office or the opera, but if you added some J.W.ANDERSON heels, the Simone Rocha tweed scarf and a designer neon-inspired clutch, you might really pull it off.

(Oh, and just to close the loop on Ashley Williams's London List, here's what else she recommends: Namco Funscape Arcade in the South Bank, Ciao Bella on Lambs Conduit and this Colombian joint in the Elephant and Castle shopping center.)

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-Laura Cassidy